Lund University

Faculty Member, Semiotics, Centre for language and literature

Professor

About

Göran Sonesson, who is Secretary General of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, is Professor of semiotics and Director of the Department of Semiotics at Lund University and Director of Centre for cognitive semiotics. Starting out from general linguistics, he has been working through the years on the semiotics of gestures, visual semiotics, cultural semiotics, and general semiotic theory, in which he bases himself on Husserlean phenomenology but also on empirical research into cognitive and perceptual psychology. His recent work, notably within the EU-project “Stages in the Development and Evolution of Sign Use”, and in the Centre for cognitiver semiotics, concerns the phylogenetic and ontogenetic background of language, gesture, and pictures. He has published a fundamental work on visual semiotics, Pictorial concepts (LUP 1989), and a text book introduction to the same domain. He has also published numerous articles in well-known semiotic reviews and anthologies, as well as on the website of his department: http://filserver.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/sonesson/CV_gs.html

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